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Mini MBA for the Mining Industry

Get the key business skills you need for your management role in the Mining Industry.

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The Key Issues

To succeed as a manager in the Mining Industry, you need to have a solid understanding of all parts of the business. You need to know how each part and level in the organization interacts with each other and contributes to corporate success. It is no longer enough to just work effectively on your own.
So, how can you get this understanding and experience faster if you have a scientific, engineering, technical or specialist background?

Strategic leadership

Competitive strategies

Operational excellence

Key Competences​

International finance

Strategy roadmapping

Managerial economics

The Right Programme for You

You have been working in the mining industry for 5+ years. You have an engineering, technical, scientific or specific role and are moving into a commercial or management position. This is the ideal programme for you.

  • Business Professionals
  • New Managers
  • Managers
  • Senior Managers

Highlights

Understand the mining industry and the strategies of key international mining companies.

Use Blue Ocean Thinking to explore new ideas and strategies.

Learn how to make better financial and investment decisions.

Learn, Practice and Use

  • Understand how a mining company works with a multi-functional overview of the business and the key leadership competences you need
  • Develop strategic thinking, planning & execution skills using the right tools & frameworks
  • Learn how to influence, enable and deliver wider organizational objectives
  • Make better business decisions and improve your contribution to the business
  • Be able to assess the business environment and translate changes into competitive strategies for sustainable growth
  • Support strategic goals from top management and be able to translate them for your area and implement them more efficiently
  • Better implement strategy through the people in your team and different departments with new management and leadership skills
  • Share your knowledge and challenges with your peers and MCE's highly experienced faculty

Programme Details

The 5-Day Mini MBA for the Mining Industry is a hands-on training programme, highly interactive with exercises and role plays. The programme will be led by an experienced facilitator with former management experience in international companies.

Five Programme Modules

  • Leadership competences and organizational success
  • Leadership characteristics of successful leaders: Learning from the best
  • Emotional intelligence and personal impact
  • Leadership in a global context and in a VUCA (volatile, uncertain, complex, ambiguous) world
  • Leadership in a culturally diverse environment
  • Leadership through disruptive change and innovation
  • Evening work: reading
  • Strategy roadmap and competitive strategy: The mining market and strategies of international mining companies
  • Blue Ocean Thinking: A management method of creating business strategies based on the idea that every enterprise can achieve higher profit by creating new demand in non-competitive markets.
  • Innovation and strategic agility
  • Marketing and sales: Insight selling and negotiating to win
  • Evening work: reading
  • Select the right Organizational Design
  • Technology trends in mining: Automation, robots, and IoT technology
  • Manage projects and mining operations efficiently
  • Manage and develop your staff and communicate across the organization
  • Mining exploration, development and production
  • Production contracts and projects: Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC) strategies and contracting
  • Financial Statements – Profit & Loss Statement (P&L)
 
  • Understand mining finance basics
  • International financial markets: Rules and principles of contracting
  • Make better investment decisions
  • Manage Joint Venture finance
  • Final evening assignment (reading)
  • Geopolitics in the mining sectors
  • Resource owners, mining contracts, tax regimes and local content
  • International and managerial economics: key social and economic phenomena, developments, and their impact on organizations and businesses
  • Entering foreign markets: the 3 steps to enter foreign markets
  • Bringing it all together: your key learnings.
  • Preparation for the knowledge test.
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Faculty

Bettina
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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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Hausmann

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24 Mar – 28 Mar 2025
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Brussels
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17 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
17 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
18 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
18 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
19 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
19 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
24 Nov, 09:00 – 12:30CET
24 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
25 Nov, 09:00 – 13:30CET
25 Nov, 14:00 – 19:00CET
26 Nov, 09:00 – 14:30CET
26 Nov, 14:00 – 20:00CET
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17 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
17 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
18 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
18 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
19 Nov, 09:00 – 12:00CET
19 Nov, 14:00 – 17:00CET
24 Nov, 09:00 – 12:30CET
24 Nov, 14:00 – 18:00CET
25 Nov, 09:00 – 13:30CET
25 Nov, 14:00 – 19:00CET
26 Nov, 09:00 – 14:30CET
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